Example Sentences

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Diminutive and polite, with a thickish beard and messy hair, Ali works in accounts for a tourism agency.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2022

It always cuts easily — I like thickish slices — and its texture is always a delightful cross between the close grain of a poundcake and a spongecake’s bit of bounce.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2022

She had washed green eyes, thickish animal hair that fell to her waist.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 3, 2017

Rabada troubles Cook some more, particularly with one he tries to work through mid-wicket, but gets a thickish leading edge on and it squirts out towards the cover boundary.

From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2016

Next to me she laid out the Q-tips, a magnifying glass, the bottle of anesthetic, and the cauterizing instrument, which was a wooden handle with a six-inch-long thickish wire coming out of one end.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos